Development

The latest book to succumb to my ravenous appetite for software development is Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide . More than any of the other books, this book convinced me how astray we’ve all been lead astray by waterfall based deve...

With all of the books with “Agile” in their title today why would anyone want to single out Agile Software Development  in particular?  My reason was the author Alistair Cockburn .  Alistair has been a part of the agile movement being both an original...

If you regularly read this blog then you know that I’ve been doing a lot of reading and reviewing of agile methodology books. (Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide , Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed , etc.)  It’s ...

Over a year ago (I think) my buddy Vijay Mehta handed me a copy of his book Pro LINQ Object Relational Mapping with C# 2008  After he explained the title to me (no I’m not really kidding), I said thanks and put the book aside until I could think abo...

I was trying to post a comment today to check out a book — a book that I had read and thought I had blogged about but apparently I blogged about it in a dream.  (Yea, I know sick) The book is Professional .NET 2.0 Generics  while I can certainly tear...

It’s very in vogue to describe your software development process as RUP.  Describing the current methodology as agile (XP, Crystal, Scrum, etc.) evokes too many questions, but describing the methodology as Rational Unified Process, more frequently RU...

I struggle to find the right way to express how to make software development right.  I can’t say that I subscribe to every idea that is put forth by Software Engineering.  The Software Engineering Institute does drive software development forward.  Howe...